Rebirth of Tao Yao

As the sun rises, a new day begins again. The golden sun lazily climbs up to the sky, gradually exuding a hot temperature.

This is the fifth day of the war.Just five days is actually not a long time for a battle, especially for a siege war, five days may not even be able to open the situation.However, this time is completely different. From the beginning of the battle to the subsequent development, it can be said that everything is weird, and even the soldiers guarding the city are already a little confused.

It is unknown when the north city gate was repaired, because the two gates of the city had been closed because of the idea of ​​catching the soldiers in the city.At this moment, there are sergeants guarding the city on the top and bottom of the city tower, but in front of them are dozens of Hu Bing showing off their might—they are not outside the city, but in the city, confronting each other carelessly, as if they are not afraid of the number of people in front of them at all. Many defenders in general.

They were indeed not afraid. Hu Bing, the leader, looked at the opposite sergeant contemptuously, and threatened with his chin raised: "Open the city gate quickly, and then put down your weapons obediently. Your Highness King Yan is in our hands. If you are disobedient, Just kill him!"

Confirming his words, a luxuriously dressed middle-aged man was pushed out, looking quite embarrassed.

The guards looked at each other in blank dismay, but they did not let go of their swords and guns - they all knew that King Yan had recently come to the border town, and even appeared in the barracks when he was patrolling the camp before, but his status was precious, even when he was patrolling the camp. There are also heavy guards around.And the consequence of this is that even though everyone has heard of him, no one has really seen King Yan's face clearly, let alone know him!

After a brief silence, a sergeant gave a cold snort and shouted: "Last night, there was news from the south gate that a group of barbarians outside the city had brought King Yan and asked us to open the city gate. As a result, the south gate is still open." Before it was opened, another "King of Yan" appeared at our north gate and wanted to open the city gate. Can you Hu people tell some reliable nonsense, or talk about it after discussing it? It's ridiculous to tell a lie and bump into each other. .”

As soon as these words came out, all the sergeants suddenly burst into laughter, and the tense atmosphere disappeared in an instant.Hu Bing, the leader, had an ugly expression on his face, and cursed several times in Hu language. He was full of joy, but never thought that the other party would not believe it!

Full of anger, Hu Bing leader shouted again: "Ours is real, and the one outside the city is fake."

The sergeant on the tower also came back, still full of sarcasm: "If you say it is true, it is true, and if you say it is false, is it false? We only have one His Royal Highness Yan Wang in the Liang Kingdom, and Hu Bing outside the south gate is still carrying Yan Wang. What about Wang Wangjia and the guards of the imperial army, you just kidnap someone, who knows who it is? Just find someone with a suit of clothes and come here to bluff, heh, of course you are as stupid as you?"

Hu Bing was so angry that his veins exploded under the verbal sword, but they couldn't refute if the other party didn't believe it.Leader Hu Bing looked back, wishing he could drag King Yan to prove his identity!

He did so, but King Yan only raised his head and glanced at the city tower.The rising sun made the city wall a bit dazzling, but what was more dazzling than the city wall was the cold light reflected by the arrows on the city tower—dozens of archers had already bent their bows and set their arrows at the first time, facing their group, but These arrows have not been released so far... This means that these sergeants are not as dismissive as they appear.

They probably knew the news, but they didn't dare to let themselves and these Hu Bing leave.

King Yan lowered his head and sighed silently, feeling a little powerless for the first time.Thinking about himself before today, he couldn't help but want to smile bitterly. After all, he was too conceited, thinking that being smart could control people's hearts and control the situation. He didn't know that the battlefield was changing rapidly, and he couldn't do whatever he wanted.And even people's hearts are not something he can figure out.

Seeing that King Yan refused to move, Hu Bing cursed and jumped in anger, but the defenders on the tower "stubbornly refused to believe it", and they couldn't really kill King Yan at this time—the dead are not worth as much as the living— —So the two sides fell into a strange stalemate.

This kind of stalemate cannot last long. Once the Hu people find out the concerns of the defenders, they will use King Yan to break the deadlock.But before that step was reached, someone suddenly moved on the tower, and a small soldier approached the ear of the sergeant who had spoken before, and murmured something unknowingly.Then the sergeant's eyes flashed, he looked over, waved his hand and ordered: "Shoot the arrow!"

The army ordered to forbid it, saying that shooting arrows is really shooting arrows, and dozens of arrows shot through the air in an instant.

King Yan was frightened by the situation, and soon found that none of the dozens of arrows were aimed at him.But even so, he broke out in a cold sweat, not to mention those Hu Bing who didn't realize it.They only thought that the defenders on the city really didn't believe it, so the current situation is that they cast themselves in a trap, and these defenders will naturally shoot them to death.

The leader of Hu Bing was furious, but the city gate was closed tightly, and the defenders were condescending to suppress them. It was actually as difficult for them to fight out of the city as it was to enter the city.But if they wanted to break through a city, it was obviously not something they could do with just a few dozen people, so they had to retreat to the city temporarily while cursing.

Although King Yan was unable to play a role at this time, such a valuable hostage was naturally not left behind, but before he was dragged away, he turned his head to look at the tower - before he was worried, but at this moment he suddenly shot an arrow, Did something happen again? !

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Yan Li and his party were small in number, and the small team moved much faster than the large army, so even if they took a detour to the valley to pick up Wen Ziran, they were still ahead of Turgu and the others when they returned to the city.

The youngsters had just obtained their military exploits, and they were full of spirits. They only felt that the stagnation of many days disappeared with the morning wind at this moment.

Gao Dashan raised his hand while the horse was galloping, and then struck the horse captive with a knife on the back of the neck.So just after waking up and looking up, Prince Huoda, who hadn't figured out where he was, fainted again, and continued to lie limply on the horse's back.As for whether he will accidentally knock people out of the way, the passionate teenager will ignore it.

Speeding up the horse, dozens of miles seem to be in the blink of an eye.

In the distance, everyone had already seen the outline of the city under the rising sun, so they became more and more excited.

Yan Li squinted his eyes and looked into the distance, the golden sunrise covered the whole city with a new layer of clothes, dazzling.However, the first thing Yan Li noticed was the repaired and closed gate of the northern city, and then the soldiers standing on the tower and figures walking back and forth, and then he looked at the flag erected on the tower—very good, or Banner with the word banquet, the border town is indeed intact.

These discoveries made Yan Li feel a lot more relaxed, so he didn't stop the crowd, and the group galloped directly to the bottom of the tower.

The sergeant on the tower was obviously very vigilant, and when their group ran into the shooting area, they first fired a round of arrows to stop them far away.Then a sergeant shouted from the tower, "Who is under the tower?"

Yan Li drove forward, raised his head to let the sergeant upstairs see his face clearly, and at the same time held up the general card given by Yan Qing, and said: "I am Yan Li, and I am ordered by General Yan to go out of the city to gather Remnant soldiers." He paused here, as if remembering that there were not many remnant soldiers around him, so he said again: "We have tied the barbarian prince back."

Unlike King Yan, Yan Li and a group of companions grew up in the military camp, and most of the defenders knew them.Coupled with Yan Qing's trump card, there is no problem with the identity of Yan Li and others, and there is no doubt that they want to enter the city.However, because of Yan Li's sentence "Tie up the barbarian prince", there was a commotion on the tower, and soon a few ropes hung from the tower, but the city gate was not opened directly.

Yan Li looked at the hanging rope and frowned, keenly aware of the abnormality.

The sergeant on the tower didn't explain too much, just said: "It's not convenient to open the city gate today, you should climb up the ropes."

Yan Li didn't say anything, and with a wave of his hand, he summoned his companion who was blocked in the distance.He raised his head and took another look at the tower, but unfortunately he couldn't see the appearance of the sergeant on the tower against the light, so he whispered a few words next to Gao Dashan, and then let everyone climb the rope into the city.

Gao Dashan was agile, he was the first to climb up the tower, glanced casually for a week, then rushed down and waved.Immediately after Xiao Liu climbed up, several veterans also climbed up. After more than half of the people went up the tower, Yan Li had someone tie the unconscious Prince Huo Da with a rope, and let the people on the tower pull him up.The penultimate one was Wen Ziran, and he was the last one to go up the tower.

All this fell into the eyes of the guards on the city, and they naturally understood Yan Li's arrangement, many of them chuckled in their hearts: Little General Yan is really cautious.But they could only smile in their hearts, because the severity of the reality prevented them from laughing.

Soon, Yan Li knew the reason for the anomaly on the tower - the situation in the city was originally good, but the barbarians who went south to chase Wang Jia came back, his father ran to find King Yan last night, and the two were killed by the enemy It's all in one pot!

As for whether this enemy is a barbarian or someone else, Yan Li doesn't care and doesn't want to care.But his father was seriously injured and fell into a coma. The defenders in the city were leaderless, and King Yan was even worse.

There was a moment of silence on the tower, and the smiles of everyone who had been beaming before froze.

The little general leaned against the city wall and sat down, let out a long breath, then turned his head to look at Prince Huoda who was thrown on the ground, and said helplessly: "King Yan can't leave it alone, we can't keep this prince." After finishing speaking After a pause, he said again: "Prince Huren still has some soldiers and horses under his command. They will probably be killed in a short time. You should be ready first."

After the words fell, the defenders on the tower did not dare to neglect at all, and the atmosphere suddenly became tense.

Everyone was worried because of the increasingly chaotic situation, so no one paid attention to Wen Ziran, let alone her worried face—the moment she heard that General Yan was seriously injured and unconscious, she couldn't restrain herself Thinking of the previous life, thinking of the previous life, it was because of Yan Qing's untimely death that Yan Li had to take over the heavy responsibility hastily.

Wen Ziran pursed her lips, finally pulled Yan Li's clothes secretly, and asked softly: "Brother, why don't you go and see General Yan first?"